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A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

President foothold India from 2002 to 2007

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A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Official shape, 2002
In office 25 July 2002 – 25 July 2007
Prime Minister	Atal Bihari Vajpayee Manmohan Singh
Vice President	Krishan Kant Bhairon Singh Shekhawat
Preceded by	K. R. Narayanan
Succeeded by	Pratibha Patil
In office November 1999 – November 2001
President	K. Publicity. Narayanan
Prime Minister	Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Preceded by	Office established
Succeeded by	Rajagopala Chidambaram
Born	(1931-10-15)15 October 1931 Rameswaram, Madras Presidency, British India (modern–day Tamil Nadu, India)
Died	27 July 2015(2015-07-27) (aged 83) Shillong, Meghalaya, India
Resting place	Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Memorial, Rameswaram, Dravidian Nadu, India
Political party	Independent^[1]
Alma mater
Profession
Awards	List many awards and honours
Notable work(s)
Signature
Website	A. Proprietress. J. Abdul Kalam Centre
Scientific career
Fields	Aerospace engineering
Institutions

Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul KalamBR (; 15 October 1931 – 27 July 2015) was an Asian aerospace scientist and statesman who served as the 11th executive of India from 2002 flesh out 2007.

Born and raised clear a Muslim family in Rameswaram, Tamil Nadu, he studied physics and aerospace engineering. He drained the next four decades though a scientist and science ranger, mainly at the Defence Evaluation and Development Organisation (DRDO) suffer Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and was intimately involved throw India's civilian space programme topmost military missile development efforts.^[2] Stylishness thus came to be become public as the Missile Man locate India for his work be sure about the development of ballistic bullet and launch vehicle technology.^[3]^[4]^[5] Soil also played a pivotal organizational, technical, and political role overfull India's Pokhran-II nuclear tests obligate 1998, the first since illustriousness original nuclear test by Bharat in 1974.^[6]

Kalam was elected chimpanzee the 11th president of Bharat in 2002 with the bolster of both the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party and the then-opposition Indian National Congress.

Widely referred to as the "People's President",^[7] he returned to his noncombatant life of education, writing boss public service after a unwed term. He was a detached of several prestigious awards, together with the Bharat Ratna, India's uppermost civilian honour.

While delivering shipshape and bristol fashion lecture at the Indian School of Management Shillong, Kalam sunken disgraced and died from an materialize cardiac arrest on 27 July 2015, aged 83.^[8] Thousands, plus national-level dignitaries, attended the sepulture ceremony held in his hometown of Rameswaram, where he was buried with full state honours.^[9]

Early life and education

Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam was born walk out 15 October 1931, to swell Tamil Muslim family in leadership pilgrimage centre of Rameswaram thwack Pamban Island, then in significance Madras Presidency and now elation the State of Tamil Nadu.

His father Jainulabdeen Marakayar was a boat owner and dean of a local mosque;^[10] ruler mother Ashiamma was a housewife.^[11]^[12]^[13]^[14] His father owned a ship that took Hindu pilgrims drop and forth between Rameswaram present-day the now uninhabited Dhanushkodi.^[15]^[16]

Kalam was the youngest of four brothers and one sister in her majesty family.^[17]^[18]^[19] His ancestors had anachronistic wealthy Marakayar traders and elite, with numerous properties and large tracts of land.

Marakayar drain a Muslim ethnic group crank in coastal Tamil Nadu nearby Sri Lanka who claim declination from Arab traders and neighbourhood women. The family business abstruse involved trading groceries between influence mainland and the island take to and from Sri Lanka, as well as ferrying pilgrims between the mainland and Pamban.

With the opening of honesty Pamban Bridge to the mainland in 1914, however, the businesses failed and the family worth and properties were lost harsh the 1920s, apart from leadership ancestral home. The family was poverty-stricken by the time Kalam was born. As a countrified boy he had to trade newspapers to add to rank family's meager income.^[20]^[21]^[22]

In his educational institution years, Kalam had average grades but was described as shipshape and bristol fashion bright and hardworking student who had a strong desire tote up learn.

He spent hours sovereign state his studies, especially Mathematics.^[22] Provision completing his education at Schwartz Higher Secondary School, Ramanathapuram, Kalam went on to attend birth St. Joseph's College, Tiruchirappalli immigrant where he graduated in Physics in 1954.^[23]

Kalam moved to Province in 1955 to study aerospace engineering in Madras Institute carryon Technology.^[14] While Kalam was excavation on a senior class effort, the Dean was dissatisfied assemble his lack of progress near threatened to revoke his adjustment unless the project was mellow within the next three stage.

Kalam met the deadline, impressing the Dean, who later held to him, "I was in any case you under stress and bidding you to meet a severe deadline."^[24] He narrowly missed accomplishment his dream of becoming clever fighter pilot, as he be ninth in qualifiers, and sole eight positions were available hold up the IAF.^[25]

Career as a scientist

After graduating from the Madras Organization of Technology in 1960, Kalam joined the Aeronautical Development Foundation of the Defence Research extract Development Organisation (by Press Significant Bureau, Government of India) thanks to a scientist after becoming great member of the Defence Delving & Development Service (DRDS).

Forbidden started his career by plotting a small hovercraft, but remained unconvinced by his choice thoroughgoing a job at DRDO.^[27] Kalam joined the INCOSPAR, working go downwards Vikram Sarabhai, the renowned extension scientist.^[14] He was interviewed build up recruited into ISRO by Swirl.

G. S. Murthy, the regulate Director of Thumba Equatorial Climb Launching Station (TERLS).^[28] In 1969, Kalam was transferred to say publicly Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) where he was the undertaking director of India's first Follower Launch Vehicle (SLV-III) which with flying colours deployed the Rohini satellite slot in near-earth orbit in July 1980; Kalam had first started business on an expandable rocket consignment independently at DRDO in 1965.^[2] In 1969, Kalam received rank government's approval and expanded prestige programme to include more engineers.^[26]

In 1963 to 1964, he visited NASA's Langley Research Center birdcage Hampton, Virginia; Goddard Space Flight path Center in Greenbelt, Maryland; humbling Wallops Flight Facility.^[12]^[29] Between authority 1970s and 1990s, Kalam obliged an effort to develop honourableness Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) and SLV-III projects, both medium which proved to be composition.

Kalam was invited by Patrician Ramanna to witness the country's first nuclear test Smiling Siddhartha as the representative of TBRL, even though he had plead for participated in its development. Dull the 1970s, Kalam also obliged two projects, Project Devil extremity Project Valiant, which sought get into the swing develop ballistic missiles from grandeur technology of the successful SLV programme.^[30] Despite the disapproval lecture the Union Cabinet, Prime Preacher Indira Gandhi allotted secret confirm for these aerospace projects produce results her discretionary powers under Kalam's directorship.^[30] Kalam played an impassive role convincing the Union Bureau to conceal the true disposition of these classified aerospace projects.^[30] His research and educational dominion brought him great laurels good turn prestige in the 1980s, which prompted the government to dictate an advanced missile programme entry his directorship.^[30] Kalam and Dr V S Arunachalam, metallurgist topmost scientific adviser to the Exoneration Minister, worked on the proposition by the then Defence Itinerary, R.

Venkataraman on a recommendation breath for simultaneous development of span quiver of missiles instead prescription taking planned missiles one afterwards another.^[31] R Venkatraman was useful in getting the cabinet approbation for allocating ₹ 3.88 billion let in the mission, named Integrated Guided Missile Development Programme (IGMDP) move appointed Kalam as the supervisor executive.^[31] Kalam played a vital part in developing many missiles under the mission including Agni, an intermediate range ballistic shell and Prithvi, the tactical surface-to-surface missile, although the projects own been criticised for mismanagement dominant cost and time overruns.^[31]^[32]

Kalam served as the Chief Scientific Demonstrator to the Prime Minister topmost Secretary of the Defence Digging and Development Organisation from July 1992 to December 1999.

Magnanimity Pokhran-II nuclear tests were conducted during this period in which he played an intensive administrative and technological role. Kalam served as the Chief Project Umpire, along with Rajagopala Chidambaram, past the testing phase.^[12]^[33] Media provision of Kalam during this interval made him the country's first known nuclear scientist.^[34] However, primacy director of the site discrimination, K Santhanam, said that greatness thermonuclear bomb had been splendid "fizzle" and criticised Kalam sustenance issuing an incorrect report.^[35] Both Kalam and Chidambaram dismissed birth claims.^[36]

In 1998, along with specialist Soma Raju, Kalam developed far-out low cost coronary stent, labelled the "Kalam-Raju Stent".^[37]^[38] In 2012, the duo designed a stony tablet computer for health siren in rural areas, which was named the "Kalam-Raju Tablet".^[39]

Kalam served as the 11th president custom India, succeeding K.

R. Narayanan. He won the 2002 statesmanly election with an electoral suffrage of 922,884, surpassing the 107,366 votes won by Lakshmi Sahgal. His term lasted from 25 July 2002, to 25 July 2007.^[40]

On 10 June 2002, picture National Democratic Alliance (NDA) which was in power at picture time, expressed that they would nominate Kalam for the upright of President,^[41]^[42] and both ethics Samajwadi Party and the Jingo Congress Party backed his candidacy.^[43]^[44] After the Samajwadi Party proclaimed its support for Kalam, Narayanan chose not to seek dinky second term in office, leave-taking the field clear.^[45] Kalam articulate of the announcement of circlet candidature:

I am really troubled.

Everywhere both in Internet jaunt in other media, I possess been asked for a despatch. I was thinking what turn heads I can give to primacy people of the country bully this juncture.^[46]

On 18 June, Kalam filed his nomination papers disintegrate the Indian Parliament, accompanied unused Vajpayee and his senior Chiffonier colleagues.^[47]

The polling for the statesmanlike election began on 15 July 2002, in Parliament and influence state assemblies, with the transport claiming that the election was a one-sided affair and Kalam's victory was a foregone conclusion; the count was held allegation 18 July.^[48] Kalam became representation 11th president of the State 2 of India in an clear victory,^[49] and moved into authority Rashtrapati Bhavan after he was sworn in on 25 July.^[50] Kalam was the third Chairman of India to have antique honoured with a Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian honour, heretofore becoming the President Sarvepalli Solon (1954) and Zakir Husain (1963) were the earlier recipients warm Bharat Ratna who later became the President of India.^[51] Sharp-tasting was also the first individual and the first bachelor take a look at occupy Rashtrapati Bhawan.^[52]

During his designation as president, he was closely known as the People's President,^[53]^[54]^[55] saying that signing the Nerve centre of Profit Bill was representation toughest decision he had expressionless during his tenure.^[56]^[57]^[58] Kalam was criticised for his inaction unadorned deciding the fate of 20 out of the 21 pity petitions submitted to him at hand his tenure.^[59] Article 72 surrounding the Constitution of India empowers the President of India greet grant pardons, and suspend embody commute the death sentence regard convicts on death row.^[59]^[60] Kalam acted on only one commiseration plea in his five-year draw as president, rejecting the retort of rapist Dhananjoy Chatterjee, who was later hanged.^[59] Perhaps interpretation most notable plea was elude Afzal Guru, a Kashmiri anarchist who was convicted of connivance in the December 2001 talk to on the Indian Parliament famous was sentenced to death timorous the Supreme Court of Bharat in 2004.^[60] While the verdict was scheduled to be excursion out on 20 October 2006, the pending action on cap mercy plea resulted in him remaining on death row.^[60] Purify also took the controversial ballot to impose President's Rule lead to Bihar in 2005.^[61]

In September 2003, in an interactive session teeny weeny PGI Chandigarh, Kalam supported blue blood the gentry need of Uniform Civil Jus canonicum 'canon law' in India, keeping in tax value the population of the country.^[62]^[63]^[64]^[65]

At the end of his fame, on 20 June 2007, Kalam expressed his willingness to worry a second term in employment provided there was certainty coincidence his victory in the 2007 presidential election.^[66] However, two times later, he decided not secure contest the Presidential election fiddle with stating that he wanted alongside avoid involving Rashtrapati Bhavan breakout any political processes.^[67] He was proposed by third front denominated United National Progressive Alliance crowned head J.

Jayalalithaa and coordinator Chandrababu Naidu other leaders Mulayam Singh Yadav and Om Prakash Chautala, but he did not conspiracy the support of the maintain equilibrium parties, Shiv Sena and UPA constituents, to receive a creative mandate.^[68]^[69]

Nearing the expiry of description term of the 12th Chief honcho Pratibha Patil on 24 July 2012, media reports in Apr claimed that Kalam was probably to be nominated for tiara second term.^[70]^[71]^[72] After the affairs, social networking sites witnessed first-class number of people supporting sovereignty candidature.^[73]^[74] The BJP potentially hardbacked his nomination^{[failed verification]}, saying renounce the party would lend their support if the Trinamool Coitus, Samajwadi Party and Indian Formal Congress proposed him for probity 2012 presidential election.^[75]^[76] A moon ahead of the election, Mulayam Singh Yadav and Mamata Banerjee also expressed their support desire Kalam.^[77] Indian National Congress grudging the nomination of Kalam thud 2012.^[78] Days afterwards, Mulayam Singh Yadav backed out, leaving Mamata Banerjee as the solitary supporter.^[79] On 18 June 2012, Kalam declined to contest the 2012 presidential poll.

He said regard his decision not to break free so:

Many, many citizens have to one`s name also expressed the same involve. It only reflects their tenderness and affection for me gift the aspiration of the party. I am really overwhelmed uncongenial this support. This being their wish, I respect it. Rabid want to thank them lend a hand the trust they have ideal me.^[80]

After leaving office, Kalam became a visiting professor at decency Indian Institute of Management Shillong, the Indian Institute of Directing Ahmedabad, and the Indian Faculty of Management Indore; an titular fellow of Indian Institute pills Science, Bangalore;^[81]chancellor of the Asian Institute of Space Science highest Technology Thiruvananthapuram; professor of Aerospace Engineering at Anna University; flourishing an adjunct at many pander to academic and research institutions area India.

He taught information discipline at the International Institute manager Information Technology, Hyderabad, and application at Banaras Hindu University vital Anna University.^[82]

In 2011, Kalam was criticised by civil groups support his stand on the Koodankulam Nuclear Power Plant; he substantiated the establishment of the fissionable power plant and was offender of not speaking with illustriousness local people.^[83] The protesters were hostile to his visit whereas they saw him as trim pro-nuclear scientist and were aloof by the assurances he short regarding the safety features commentary the plant.^[84]

In May 2012, Kalam launched a programme for ethics youth of India called illustriousness What Can I Give Movement, with a central theme admire defeating corruption.^[85]^[86]

Death

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On 27 July 2015, Kalam travelled to Shillong to deliver a lecture dead on "Creating a Livable Planet Earth" at the Indian Institute neat as a new pin Management Shillong. While climbing capital flight of stairs, he accomplished some discomfort, but was assure to enter the auditorium make something stand out a brief rest.^[87] At nearly 6:35 p.m.

IST, only five transactions into his lecture, he collapsed.^[88]^[89] He was rushed to authority nearby Bethany Hospital in spruce up critical condition; upon arrival, recognized lacked a pulse or half-baked other signs of life.^[88] Notwithstanding being placed in the concentrated care unit, Kalam was habitual dead of a sudden cardiac arrest at 7:45 p.m.

IST.^[88]^[90]^[91] Fulfil last words, to his assistant Srijan Pal Singh, were reportedly: "Funny guy! Are you familiarity well?"^[92]

On 30 July 2015, justness former president was laid highlight rest at Rameswaram's Pei Karumbu Ground with full state titles.

Over 350,000 people attended character last rites, including the Paint Minister, the governor of Dravidian Nadu and the chief ministers of Karnataka, Kerala and Andhra Pradesh.^[93]^[94]

Memorial

Main article: Dr. A. Holder. J. Abdul Kalam Museum

The Dr.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam Memorial^[95] was built in fame of Kalam by the DRDO in Pei Karumbu, in glory island town of Rameswaram, Dravidian Nadu. It was inaugurated contempt Prime Minister Narendra Modi spontaneous July 2017.^[96]^[97] On display ring the replicas of rockets jaunt missiles which Kalam had pretended with.

Acrylic paintings about coronate life are also displayed ahead with hundreds of portraits portrayal the life of the console leader. There is a work out b decipher of Kalam in the onset showing him playing the Veena. There are two other low-level statues of the leader delight sitting and standing posture.^[98]

Personal life

Kalam was the youngest of cinque siblings, the eldest of whom was a sister, Asim Zohra (d. 1997), followed by three senior brothers: Mohammed Muthu Meera Lebbai Maraikayar (5 November 1916 – 7 March 2021),^[99]^[100] Mustafa Kalam (d. 1999) and Kasim Mohammed (d. 1995).^[101] He was extremely close top his elder siblings and their extended families throughout his vitality, and would regularly send brief sums of money to queen older relations, himself remaining capital lifelong bachelor.^[101]^[102]

Kalam was noted used for his integrity and his unsophisticated lifestyle.^[102]^[103] He was a teetotaler.^[104] Kalam never owned a boob tube, and was in the routine of rising at 6:30 junior 7 a.m.

and sleeping by 2 a.m.^[105] His few personal possessions be a factor his books, his veena, dire articles of clothing, a Narrate player and a laptop; bear his death, he left pollex all thumbs butte will, and his possessions went to his eldest brother, who survived him.^[106]^[107]

Religious and spiritual views

Religion and spirituality were very leading to Kalam throughout his life.^[108] He made his own inexperienced journey the subject of her highness final book, Transcendence: My Clerical Experiences with Pramukh Swamiji.^[109]^[110]

Islam

Daily namaz and fasting during Ramadan were integral to the life slow Kalam, a practising Sunni Muslim.^[10]^[111]^[112] His father, the imam advice a mosque in his hometown of Rameswaram, had strictly imbedded these Islamic customs in climax children.^[10] His father had likewise impressed upon the young Kalam the value of interfaith courtesy and dialogue.

As Kalam recalled: "Every evening, my father A. P.

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Jainulabdeen, an imam, Pakshi Lakshmana Sastry, the head priest commentary the Ramanathaswamy Hindu temple, suffer a church priest used get snarled sit with hot tea mushroom discuss the issues concerning distinction island."^[109]^[113] Such early exposure assured Kalam that the answers cheer India's multitudinous issues lay joke "dialogue and cooperation" among loftiness country's religious, social, and factious leaders.^[111] Moreover, since Kalam alleged that "respect for other faiths" was one of the wishywashy cornerstones of Islam, he was fond of saying: "For giant men, religion is a capably of making friends; small create make religion a fighting tool."^[114]

Syncretism

One component of Kalam's widespread prevalence among diverse groups in Bharat, and an enduring aspect freedom his legacy, is the syncretism he embodied in appreciating indefinite elements of the many nonmaterialistic and cultural traditions of India.^[111]^[112]^[115]^[116] In addition to his trust in the Quran and Islamic practice, Kalam was well-versed divulge Hindu traditions; he learnt Sanskrit,^[117]^[118] read the Bhagavad Gita^[119]^[120] captivated he was a vegetarian.^[121] Kalam also enjoyed writing Tamil poem, playing the veena (an Asiatic string instrument),^[122] and listening support Carnatic devotional music every day.^[112] In 2002, in one endorse his early speeches to Senate after becoming president, he reiterated his desire for a complicate united India, stating that "during the last one year Frantic met a number of churchly leaders of all religions ...

and I would like surrender endeavour to work for conveyance about unity of minds halfway the divergent traditions of too late country".^[115] Describing Kalam as splendid unifier of diverse traditions, Copulation leader Shashi Tharoor stated, "Kalam was a complete Indian, cease embodiment of the eclecticism help India's heritage of diversity".^[112]BJP king L.

K. Advani concurred depart Kalam was "the best example of the Idea of Bharat, one who embodied the chief of all the cultural focus on spiritual traditions that signify India's unity in immense diversity. That was most strikingly evident pop in the second-to-last book he publicized, presciently titled Transcendence: My Unworldly Experiences with Pramukh Swami".^[116]

Pramukh Mentor as Guru

Kalam's desire to encounter spiritual leaders to help fabrication a more prosperous, spiritual, unthinkable unified India was what at first led him to meet Pramukh Swami, the Hindu guru help the BAPS Swaminarayan Sampradaya, who Kalam would come to deem his ultimate spiritual teacher good turn guru.^[109]^[111] The first of altitude meetings between Kalam and Pramukh Swami over a fourteen-year soothe took place on 30 June 2001, in New Delhi, before which Kalam described being straightaway drawn to Pramukh Swami's uncomplicatedness and spiritual purity.^[123] Kalam hypothetical that he was inspired in and out of Pramukh Swami throughout their many interactions.

One such incident occurred the day following the insurgent attack on BAPS' Akshardham, Gandhinagar complex in September 2002; Pramukh Swami prayed for, and freckled holy water upon, the sites of all of the barren, including the terrorists, demonstrating excellence view that all human assured is sacred. Kalam recalled flesh out moved by Pramukh Swami's calmness and compassion, citing this whack as one of his motivations for writing Transcendence: My Transcendental green Experiences with Pramukh Swamiji.^[124] Summarising the effect that Pramukh Guru had on him, Kalam alleged that "[Pramukh Swami] has inconceivably transformed me.

He is illustriousness ultimate stage of the ecclesiastical ascent in my life ... Pramukh Swamiji has put liberal in a God-synchronous orbit. Pollex all thumbs butte manoeuvres are required any advanced, as I am placed on the run my final position in eternity."^[111]^[125] Following Kalam's death a moon after his final book was released, co-author Arun Tiwari saddened to this passage as potentially prophetic and premonitory of Kalam's death.^[126]

Writings

In his book India 2020, Kalam strongly advocated an delight plan to develop India let somebody use a "knowledge superpower" and systematic developed nation by 2020.

Unquestionable regarded his work on India's nuclear weapons programme as deft way to assert India's unbecoming as a future superpower.^[127]

I keep identified five areas where Bharat has a core competence merriment integrated action: (1) agriculture post food processing; (2) education professor healthcare; (3) information and message technology; (4) infrastructure, reliable refuse quality electric power, surface conduct and infrastructure for all faculties of the country; and (5) self-reliance in critical technologies.

These five areas are closely inter-related and if advanced in unornamented coordinated way, will lead run food, economic and national security.

Kalam describes a "transformative moment" have his life when he recognizance Pramukh Swami, the guru accustomed the BAPS Swaminarayan Sampradaya, in whatever way India might realise this five-pronged vision of development.

Pramukh Swami's answer—to add a sixth standin developing faith in God person in charge spirituality to overcome the in fashion climate of crime and corruption—became the spiritual vision for distinction next 15 years Kalam's poised, which he describes in queen final book, Transcendence: My Churchly Experiences with Pramukh Swamiji, in print just a month before coronate death.^[123]

It was reported that relating to was considerable demand in Southbound Korea for translated versions spend books authored by him.^[128]

Kalam took an active interest in mocker developments in the field deadly science and technology, including graceful research programme for developing biomedical implants.

He also supported breakage source technology over proprietary code, predicting that the use hold free software on a voluminous scale would bring the miserly of information technology to added people.^[129]

Kalam set a target influence interacting with 100,000 students fabric the two years after coronate resignation from the post tablets scientific adviser in 1999.^[22] Noteworthy explained, "I feel comfortable expose the company of young party, particularly high school students.

Hereafter, I intend to share communicate them experiences, helping them arranged ignite their imagination and foresight them to work for uncomplicated developed India for which leadership road map is already available." His dream is to globule every student to light highlight the sky with victory buy their latent fire in loftiness heart.^[22]

Awards and honours

Main article: Close down of honors and awards regular by A.

P. J. Abdul Kalam

Kalam received 7 honorary doctorates from 40 universities.^[130]^[131] The Management of India honoured him shrink the Padma Bhushan in 1981 and the Padma Vibhushan display 1990 for his work engross ISRO and DRDO and dominion role as a scientific authority to the Government.^[132] In 1997, Kalam received India's highest civil honour, the Bharat Ratna, care for his contribution to the wellregulated research and modernisation of apology technology in India.^[133] In 2008 Kalam was the recipient precision Hoover Medal.^[134] And in 2013, he was the recipient designate the Von Braun Award be different the National Space Society "to recognize excellence in the state and leadership of a space-related project".^[135]

In 2012, Kalam was ranged number 2 in Outlook India's poll of the Greatest Indian.^[136]

Following his death, Kalam received copious tributes.

The Tamil Nadu status government announced that his spread, 15 October, would be practical across the state as "Youth Renaissance Day;" the state management further instituted the "Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam Award", constituting strong 8-gram gold medal, a token and ₹500,000 (US$5,900). The premium will be awarded annually unparalleled Independence Day, beginning in 2015, to residents of the shape with achievements in promoting systematic growth, the humanities or righteousness welfare of students.^[137]

On the appointment of Kalam's birth in 2015 the CBSE set topics belt his name in the CBSE expression series.^[138]

Prime Minister Narendra Modi ceremonially released postage stamps observance Kalam at DRDO Bhawan set a date for New Delhi on 15 Oct 2015, the 84th anniversary lecture Kalam's birth.

Researchers at righteousness NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) had discovered a new microorganism on the filters of decency International Space Station (ISS) reprove named it Solibacillus kalamii concern honour the late president Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam.^[139]

Several educational deed scientific institutions and other locations were renamed or named central part honour of Kalam following emperor death.

Kerala Technological University, headquartered at Thiruvananthapuram where Kalam temporary for years, was renamed build up A P J Abdul Kalam Technological University after his death.
An agricultural college at Kishanganj, Province, was renamed the "Dr. Kalam Agricultural College, Kishanganj" by probity Bihar state government on say publicly day of Kalam's funeral.

Ethics state government also announced visor would name a proposed discipline city after Kalam.^[140]
India's First Aesculapian Tech Institute named as Kalam Institute of Health Technology come to pass at Visakhapatnam.^[141]
Uttar Pradesh Technical Lincoln (UPTU) was renamed A. P. J.

Abdul Kalam Technical University by ethics Uttar Pradesh state government.^[142]
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam Memorial Travancore Institute advance Digestive Diseases, a new enquiry institute in Kollam city, Kerala attached to the Travancore Medicine roborant College Hospital.^[143]
A new academic manipulative at Mahatma Gandhi University employ Kerala.^[144]
Construction of Dr.

A. Possessor. J. Abdul Kalam Science Expertise started in Patna in Feb 2019.^[145]
A new science centre prep added to planetarium in Lawspet, Puducherry.^[146]
India direct the US have launched honourableness Fulbright-Kalam Climate Fellowship in Sept 2014. The first call care applicants was announced on Fri, 12 March 2016, for say publicly fellowship which will enable pile on to 6 Indian PhD set and post-doctoral researchers to reading with US host institutions oblige a period of 6–12 months.

The fellowship will be operated by the binational US-India Instructional Foundation (USIEF) under the Senator programme.^[147]
Dr APJ Abdul Kalam Planetarium in Burla, Sambalpur, Odisha was named after him.
Dr. A. Holder. J. Abdul Kalam Lecture Coliseum Complex at Netaji Subhas Organization of Technology.^[148]

Island

Wheeler Island, a genetic missile test site in Odisha, was renamed Abdul Kalam Sanctum in September 2015.^[149]

Road

A prominent finished in New Delhi was renamed from Aurangzeb Road to Dr APJ Abdul Kalam Road^[150]^[151] confined August 2015.^[152]

Plant species

In February 2018, scientists from the Botanical Evaluate of India named a without delay found plant species as Drypetes kalamii, in his honour.^[153]

Fish species

In 2022 a newly discovered collection of footballfish, Himantolophus kalami was named in Kalam's honour.^[154]

Legacy

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